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Late Lyrics and Earlier

by Thomas Hardy

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  1. 1Apology
  2. 2Weathers
  3. 3The Maid of Keinton Mandeville (A Tribute to Sir H. Bishop)
  4. 4Summer Schemes
  5. 5Epeisodia
  6. 6Faintheart in a Railway Train
  7. 7At Moonrise and Onwards
  8. 8The Garden Seat
  9. 9Barthélémon at Vauxhall
  10. 10“I Sometimes Think” (for F. E. H.)
  11. 11Jezreel on Its Seizure by the English Under Allenby, September 1918
  12. 12A Jog-Trot Pair
  13. 13“The Curtains Now Are Drawn” (Song)
  14. 14“I Was Not He” (Song)
  15. 15The West-of-Wessex Girl
  16. 16Welcome Home
  17. 17Going and Staying
  18. 18Read by Moonlight
  19. 19At a House in Hampstead — Sometime the Dwelling of John Keats
  20. 20A Woman’s Fancy
  21. 21Her Song
  22. 22A Wet August
  23. 23The Dissemblers
  24. 24To a Lady Playing and Singing in the Morning
  25. 25“A Man Was Drawing Near to Me”
  26. 26The Strange House (Max Gate, A.D. 2000)
  27. 27“As ’Twere To-Night” (Song)
  28. 28The Contretemps
  29. 29A Gentleman’s Epitaph on Himself and a Lady, Who Were Buried Together
  30. 30The Old Gown (Song)
  31. 31A Night in November
  32. 32A Duettist to Her Pianoforte — Song of Silence (E. L. H — H. C. H.)
  33. 33“Where Three Roads Joined”
  34. 34“And There Was a Great Calm” (on the Signing of the Armistice, Nov.…
  35. 35Haunting Fingers — A Phantasy in a Museum of Musical Instruments
  36. 36The Woman I Met
  37. 37“If It’s Ever Spring Again” (Song)
  38. 38The Two Houses
  39. 39On Stinsford Hill at Midnight
  40. 40The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
  41. 41The Selfsame Song
  42. 42The Wanderer
  43. 43A Wife Comes Back
  44. 44A Young Man’s Exhortation
  45. 45At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
  46. 46A Bygone Occasion (Song)
  47. 47Two Serenades
  48. 48The Wedding Morning
  49. 49End of the Year 1912
  50. 50The Chimes Play “Life’s a Bumper!”
  51. 51“I Worked No Wile to Meet You” (Song)
  52. 52At the Railway Station, Upway
  53. 53Side by Side
  54. 54Dream of the City Shopwoman
  55. 55A Maiden’s Pledge (Song)
  56. 56The Child and the Sage
  57. 57Mismet
  58. 58An Autumn Rain-Scene
  59. 59Meditations on a Holiday (A New Theme to an Old Folk-Jingle)
  60. 60An Experience
  61. 61The Beauty
  62. 62The Collector Cleans His Picture
  63. 63The Wood Fire (A Fragment)
  64. 64Saying Good-Bye (Song)
  65. 65On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-Fourth
  66. 66The Opportunity (for H. P.)
  67. 67Evelyn G. of Christminster
  68. 68The Rift — (Song: Minor Mode)
  69. 69Voices From Things Growing in a Churchyard
  70. 70On the Way
  71. 71“She Did Not Turn”
  72. 72Growth in May
  73. 73The Children and Sir Nameless
  74. 74At the Royal Academy
  75. 75Her Temple
  76. 76A Two-Years’ Idyll
  77. 77By Henstridge Cross at the Year’s End
  78. 78Penance
  79. 79“I Look in Her Face” — (Song: Minor)
  80. 80After the War
  81. 81“If You Had Known”
  82. 82The Chapel-Organist (A.D. 185–)
  83. 83Fetching Her
  84. 84“Could I but Will” — (Song: Verses 1, 3, Key Major; Verse 2, Key Mi…
  85. 85She Revisits Alone the Church of Her Marriage
  86. 86At the Entering of the New Year
  87. 87They Would Not Come
  88. 88After a Romantic Day
  89. 89The Two Wives (Smoker’s Club-Story)
  90. 90“I Knew a Lady” (Club Song)
  91. 91A House With a History
  92. 92A Procession of Dead Days
  93. 93He Follows Himself
  94. 94The Singing Woman
  95. 95Without, Not Within Her
  96. 96“O I Won’t Lead a Homely Life” — (To an Old Air)
  97. 97In the Small Hours
  98. 98The Little Old Table
  99. 99Vagg Hollow
  100. 100The Dream Is — Which?
  101. 101The Country Wedding (A Fiddler’s Story)
  102. 102First or Last (Song)
  103. 103Lonely Days
  104. 104“What Did It Mean?”
  105. 105At the Dinner-Table
  106. 106The Marble Tablet
  107. 107The Master and the Leaves
  108. 108Last Words to a Dumb Friend
  109. 109A Drizzling Easter Morning
  110. 110On One Who Lived and Died Where He Was Born
  111. 111The Second Night (Ballad)
  112. 112She Who Saw Not
  113. 113The Old Workman
  114. 114The Sailor’s Mother
  115. 115Outside the Casement (A Reminiscence of the War)
  116. 116The Passer-by (L. H. Recalls Her Romance)
  117. 117“I Was the Midmost”
  118. 118A Sound in the Night (Woodsford Castle: 17–)
  119. 119On a Discovered Curl of Hair
  120. 120An Old Likeness (Recalling R. T.)
  121. 121Her Apotheosis — “Secretum Meum Mihi” — (Faded Woman’s Song)
  122. 122“Sacred to the Memory” (Mary H.)
  123. 123To a Well-Named Dwelling
  124. 124The Whipper-in
  125. 125A Military Appointment (Scherzando)
  126. 126The Milestone by the Rabbit-Burrow (on Yell’ham Hill)
  127. 127The Lament of the Looking-Glass
  128. 128Cross-Currents
  129. 129The Old Neighbour and the New
  130. 130The Chosen
  131. 131The Inscription (A Tale)
  132. 132The Marble-Streeted Town
  133. 133A Woman Driving
  134. 134A Woman’s Trust
  135. 135Best Times
  136. 136The Casual Acquaintance
  137. 137Intra Sepulchrum
  138. 138The Whitewashed Wall
  139. 139Just the Same
  140. 140The Last Time
  141. 141The Seven Times
  142. 142The Sun’s Last Look on the Country Girl (M. H.)
  143. 143In a London Flat
  144. 144Drawing Details in an Old Church
  145. 145Rake-Hell Muses
  146. 146189 — The Colour
  147. 147Murmurs in the Gloom (Nocturne)
  148. 148Epitaph
  149. 149An Ancient to Ancients
  150. 150After Reading Psalms — XXXIX., XL., etc.
  151. 151187 — Surview — “Cogitavi Vias Meas”

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